Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
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Designgineering Chronicles [WiH]: Months 4 – 5.5
Another installment of Designgineering Chronicles jam packed with information! IndieWire launched with the pattern library, and we are in full pursuit of the holy grail: sharing markup between the library and production theme.
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Pittsburgh is a wonderful place
The grey skies and wintry weather are a welcome break from the monotony of Los Angeles sunshine (I mean, LA sunshine is nice but…not for me).
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Breakfast burrito at the airport
I’m eating a breakfast burrito at LAX before my flight back to Pittsburgh. Breakfast burritos at the airport before early flights are a ritual for me, and I felt like writing about it.
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Ross From Friends
I like house music a lot. I’m quite a fan of the lo-fi trend, and Ross From Friends is in that category. A class act. Boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats.
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Control Sass selector concatenation with a Stylelint rule
It’s not necessarily bad to concatenate Sass selectors, but if you need to keep developers from doing it for the purposes of coding standards, this might be helpful!
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Anti-Notification Workflow
As part of my mission to conquer Twitter anxiety, I’ve figured out a solid workflow for quieting notifications on my phone. These things may be obvious, but they are not the default, so decidedly not obvious.
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Most popular monster so far
This monster made an appearance as a sticker, and it has been the most popular so far. Just look at that sweet face!
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Creative Quest by Questlove
Creative Quest is essentially a holistic guidebook to being creative, by Questlove, the drummer from the Roots. If you’re a creative person and looking to put some more energy into developing that side of yourself, I can’t recommend it enough!
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Disappointing Pho
A short post about eating disappointing pho while hungover. I wouldn’t call this a “must read” but it is certainly relatable.
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Squidward-esque monster
I drew this monster for a slide about how “Naming things is hard” in CSS. It looks a bit like Squidward from Spongebob.
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Monster inspired by koi fish
Have you ever watch koi fish eat and noticed how hilarious their noses/mouths are? This monster (and possibly many monsters before it, but subconsciously) were inspired by the gaping mouths of koi.
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Accessibility in the real world: One step at a time
Most of the websites I work on at work are not accessible and won’t be any time soon. I had a bit of a realization this week about how to deal with that – accessibility doesn’t have to be all or nothing. One step at a time.
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Designgineering Chronicles [WiH]: The Third Month
It’s time for the third installment of Designgineering Chronicles! This one is a long one and written in major haste, so buckle up. Lots of good things about job titles, CSS standards, JavaScript, perfectionism, and the joys of refactoring.
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Likeable, 3-eyed monster
This monster appears on the slide where I have FizzBuzz written in CSS. What a friendly face!
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A helpful monster
Look at this gentle giant, giving some friends a ride somewhere. How nice.
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.u-glue: A positioning pattern (algorithm? API?)
.u-glue is a CSS utility class (or what I would call an algorithm) that provides an API for positioning an element absolutely over another element. We are using it at PMC, and it’s proven a useful model!
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CSS is a Declarative, Domain-Specific Programming Language
Over the past year, I’ve been giving a talk called The Algorithms of CSS, originally created for CSSConf EU. This post covers the first part of my presentation, and breaks down how CSS fits into the categories of programming languages.
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[Book Rec] How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
I now realize my historic aversion to math is due to bad math education. Math is so cool and I want to learn more of it, thanks to this book!
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Future water monster
This is a water monster, and for one reason or another, it represents the future.
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Designgineering Chronicles [WiH]: The Second Month
This is the second in a potentially ongoing series about my work at PMC as a Design Engineer. This month was full of lessons learned about working at a big company, building out a pattern library, and an exciting foray into Node.
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Possibly elderly monster
I think my late grandfather is channeled in this monster – he was a jokester, to be sure.
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A quick take on CSS drama 🔥
I’ve been somewhat checked out of Twitter, etc. for the past week and returned to a fresh round of CSS drama. Here’s my take: it’s noise.
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Email newsletters I enjoy
I’m really loving the medium of trustworthy email newsletters lately – here is a compendium of my favorite weekly-ish ones, both within the web dev sphere but also outside it.
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Designgineering Chronicles [WiH]: The First Month
This post is a summary of what I’ve been working on at PMC as a “Design Engineer”. Note that it is written in haste (WiH)!
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Resources about Front-end Architecture and Design Systems, etc.
I’ve been researching design systems lately, and this is an evolving list of the resources I’ve found particularly resonant for my purposes. Have anything to add?
